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SOURCE: Mother Jones
10/13/2020
A Scholar of American Doom Doesn’t See How Capitalism Can Fix This Crisis
"There are probably a billion and a half people, maybe more, maybe 2 billion, in the informal working class who have simply been triaged already in advance. So the fate of a very large minority of humanity has been determined now."
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SOURCE: The Hill
10/12/2020
Portland Protesters Topple Statues of Lincoln, Roosevelt in 'Day of Rage'
Droves of protesters in Portland, Ore., took down the statues of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln on Sunday in demonstrations that had reportedly been billed online as “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage” by organizers.
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SOURCE: Lexington Herald-Leader
10/6/2020
In Louisville, Looking to Life-Changing Past Civil Rights Protests to Move Forward
Historian Tracy E. K'Meyer says that, despite the mutual misgivings of older and younger activists, Louisville's legacy of civil rights protests in the 1960s is highly influential today as activists seek justice and policing reform in the wake of the killing of Breonna Taylor.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
10/13/2020
'I Was Hit and Knocked to the Ground': The True Story of the Trial of the Chicago 7
“There are some things that I wouldn’t agree with how Sorkin has characterised certain figures in the trial, myself included. But the impact of the movie is there and I certainly endorse and support it," says Chicago 7 defendant and antiwar activist Rennie Davis.
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SOURCE: TIME
10/9/2020
'My Faith in This World Is Gone.' For Protesters Injured by Police, There's No Real Recovery
Historian Heather Ann Thompson says that the use of violence against peaceable protest has been historically common in the United States, though access to military weaponry by civilian police departments is a new factor.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
10/7//2020
Getting to Freedom City (Review)
by Robin D.G. Kelley
Historian Robin Kelley reviews Mike Davis and Jon Weiner's "Set the Night on Fire," which chronicles the growth of resistance to inequality and miltarized policing in 1960s Los Angeles.
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10/11/2020
Paul Revere Made the Boston Massacre a Flashpoint for Revolution.
by Philip Gerard
The incident that became known as the Boston Massacre didn't have to happen, and didn't have to become a flashpoint for violence after. As political tensions break into violence today, it's worthwhile to think about Boston in 1770.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
10/5/2020
Chile at the Barricades
"To walk the streets of Santiago was to read a collective, anonymous scroll of inchoate rage: Abort the police, Die Piñera, ACAB, Bankers to the gallows. The graffiti was on seemingly every wall and sidewalk in the central districts of the city."
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
10/1/2020
Black Women are Leading the Movement to End Police Violence
by Keisha N. Blain
Throughout the 20th century Black women have led movements in protest of police violence and unequal treatment under law. Today's protests carry on that legacy.
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SOURCE: Al Jazeera
9/18/2020
The Danger Of Depoliticising Black Power Activism
Both celebrities and consumer brands have appropriated the aesthetics of the Black Panther Party and other Black militants, without dealing with the substance of their politics.
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SOURCE: Toward Freedom
9/19/2020
Against State Capture
by Austin McCoy
Austin McCoy warns that the energy of today's protest movements, which demand deep changes to the organization of society, is at risk of being captured and contained by small-scale reforms. The challenge for "abolition democracy" is to involve people in deciding how to dismantle and replace repressive institutions.
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9/20/2020
“We Are Ourselves”: Review of For Workers’ Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton
by Eric Laursen
Maurice Brinton--the pseudonym of a British neurologist--authored an influential series of works of radical political thought that urged the British left to move away from rigid party structures and doctrinal disputes toward social movements.
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9/20/2020
The Second Amendment has Never Covered Kenosha Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse
by Noah Shusterman
If his lawyer wants to argue that Kyle Rittenhouse was acting in the spirit of those eighteenth-century militias which went outside the law and defied their state government, and especially those who did so in the interest of promoting white supremacy – his case would be historically solid. It would not, however, be an exoneration.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
9/17/2020
Taking the Next Knee Is this Athletic Revolt For Real and Is It a Danger to Donald Trump?
by Robert Lipsyte
Today's protests by pro athletes, with the WNBA leading the way, appear to be advancing beyond past waves of activism in the world of sports.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/8/2020
The Forgotten History of the Radical ‘Elders of the Tribe’
by Susan J. Douglas
The Gray Panthers fought for the civil rights, social services and respect denied to older Americans. But they did so by challenging inequality in ways that sought alliances instead of antagonism between young and old.
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9/13/2020
Twenty-One Days Later: Ventura County's Participation in the Chicano Moratorium of 1970
by Frank P. Barajas
Police responded brutally to the 1970 Chicano Moratorium protest march in East Los Angeles, including killing journalist Ruben Salazar. This news spread to smaller Chicano communities in the state and beyond and sparked a politicial movement for justice that echoes today.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
9/9/2020
The Players’ Revolt Against Racism, Inequality, and Police Terror
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The radicalization of young Black professional athletes is a stunning development in this unfolding, raucous movement, one that demonstrates the sheer scale of racial inequality and a deep need to do something about it.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
9/4/2020
The Depression-Era Lessons That Can Solve Today’s Evictions Crisis
by Anya Jabour
Social workers and researchers Edith Abbott and Sophonisba Breckinridge conducted an important study of evictions in Chicago during the Great Depression and advocated for federal support for a minimum standard of living including housing. The looming eviction crisis demands similar big thinking.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
9/8/2020
Covid-19 Has Exposed The Consequences Of Decades Of Bad Public Housing Policy
by Gillet Gardner Rosenblith
Poor and economically precarious Americans are at risk of eviction in the COVID-19 crisis because American policymakers have spent decades rejecting a public role in providing decent housing outside of the market system.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
9/9/2020
Our Summer of White Male Supremacy
by Ibram X. Kendi
"Adherents of Trumpism think they are facing a choice between white male supremacy and 'anarchy'."